 In the mouth of the fresh-water stream it is from four to three fathom, but there are large flats and sand-banks lying before it. A ship of moderate draught may, notwithstanding, go a long way up this river with a flowing tide, for it rises perpendicularly...  The Ports, Harbours, Watering-places, and Coast Scenery of Great Britain - Page 27by William Finden, Edward Francis Finden, William Beattie, William Henry Bartlett - 1842Full view - About this book
 | Arctic regions - 1775 - 674 pages
...long way up this river with a flowing tide, for it rifes N°**"^^ perpendicularly near ten feet, and at the full and change of the moon, it is high water about nine o'clock. Six leagues within Cape Colville, under the eaftern fhore, are feveral fmall iflands,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 448 pages
...notwithstanding, go a long way up this river with a flowing tide, for it rises peipendicularly near ten feet, and at the full and change of the moon, it is high water about nine o'clock. Six leagues within Cape Colville, tinder the eastern shore, are several small islands,... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1812 - 1052 pages
...eight to nine knots au hour. 5 AlfClBSEA. 293 •'•.(•••' tides H ril so of an Unusual kind. At the full and change of the moon, it is high Water at nine o'clock in the morning, onCaernarvon bar: aod not till nearly half past ton at Beaumaris. Two... | |
 | General history - 1814 - 798 pages
...notwithstanding, go a long way up this river with a flowing tide, for it rises perpendicularly near ten feet, and at the full and change of the moon, it is high water about nine o'clock. Six leagues within Cape Colville, under the eastern shore, are several small islands,... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1815 - 534 pages
...notwithstanding, go a long way up this river with a flowing tide, for it rises perpendicularly near ten feet, and at the full and change of the moon, it is high water about nine o'clock. Six leagues within Cape Colville, under the eastern shore, are several small islands,... | |
 | Robert Kerr - Voyages and travels - 1815 - 550 pages
...notwithstanding, go a long way up this river with a flowing tide, for it rises perpendicularly near ten feet, and at the full and change of the moon, it is high water about nine o'clock. Six leagues within Cape Colville, under the eastern shore, are several small islands,... | |
 | John Purdy - 1816 - 184 pages
...sandy, and shoulens gradually to C fathoms at a cahle.s length from shore. The tide rises 5 feet, and at the full and change of the moon it is high water at 8h. 15m.; hut its flux and re-flux do not alter the direction of the current at half a league from... | |
 | Wales - 1818 - 578 pages
...with it to the northward about the islands, so as to ensure an advantageous tide in either case. " At the full and change of the moon it is high water at St. Anne's Head on the shore at three quarters past five, but the stream of flood tide continues... | |
 | Daniel Paterson - 1822 - 784 pages
...water ; and if the wind be southerly or westerly, it may be passed for seven hours after high water. At the full and change of the moon, it is high water at the New Passage at 7 o'clock, and the time of high water is about 50 minutes later every day. The... | |
 | Robert Kerr - Explorers - 1824 - 528 pages
...notwithstanding, go a long way up this river with a flowing tide, for it rises perpendicularly near ten feet, and at the full and change of the moon, it is high water about nine o'clock. Six leagues within CapeColville, under the eastern shore, are several small islands,... | |
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